Blu & Oh No, Indie-Rap Survivors

A decade ago, XXL did its best to figure out where rap was going. They'd tried it once before, spotlighting a bunch of rising street-rap stars -- Lil Boosie, Young Dro, Saigon -- on the cover of a 2007 issue. But 2009 was the beginning of the XXL Freshman class, a mostly-annual institution that's come…

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